Public administration

The Human Rights Act is now in force.

This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations.

This book reflects the great changes in terms of real estate sales, purchases, finance and policies from planned economy to market economy in China.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

This book explores the intersection of social equity-related issues with concerns within the field of public administration in Canada.

Der Band beschreibt und analysiert Innovation im Bereich der Kommunalpolitik in Deutschland.

CSR is a fragile concept if conceived only at the organizational level or driven only by leadership will.

The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.

This book charts the evolution of the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales.

This book seeks to consistently explain the role of ideas and institutions in policy outcomes, and addresses the problem of how resource nationalism causes a deficit of public accountability in oil producing countries from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences.

Internal security is often hailed as a rapidly expanding area of European integration, with a growing number of strategies, policies and framework agreements in recent years.

Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die europäische Migrationspolitik und die verschiedenen institutionellen Arrangements innerhalb und zwischen verschiedenen Akteuren wie Kommunalverwaltungen, lokalen Medien, lokaler Wirtschaft und lokalen zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen.

This lucid guide meets the need, so often expressed in the 1990s, for an up-to-date assessment of the contemporary Commonwealth.

Students of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management require a strong foundation in how government and NGOs are connected with information technology.

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.

This book describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) since the early 1990s.

The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts.

"e;Regional cooperation exists, but looks different in the global South than in the European Union,"e; claim the contributors to South American Policy Regionalism, which offers novel theory, methods, and Latin American case studies of joint governance efforts in nine international policy arenas, ranging from illegal drugs to artificial intelligence.

This volume provides a lens to analyze public policy decisions involving entrepreneurship.

Las Actas son el tipo documental más importante producido por el Cabildo durante el período colonial, por ello la relevancia de su transcripción trasciende el ámbito local.

Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism is the first resource to address cities' transformations of their coastlines and riverbanks and the resulting effects on environment, culture, and identity in a genuinely global context.

This book examines the politics of Banking Union and EMU reform in the EU, and draws lessons for what it means for international politics, both in Europe, and for international relations more broadly.

Now in a thoroughly revised 7th edition, Public Personnel Management focuses on the critical issues and common processes in the management of public sector personnel.

Too often professionals in public policy or criminal justice must scramble to find additional reading on juvenile law and justice or on juvenile delinquency topics because most references and textbooks provide inadequate coverage of many issues of importance.

Sound machinery of government is at the core of a well-functioning state.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

The book embarks on the transformative reforms in Public Administration at the nexus of digital innovation and governance paradigms in Morocco.

Marco Just Quiles offers new perspectives on how domestic and external factors interact to shape variations in local state capacity.

Thematic examination of monotheistic religions The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes which are equally relevant to each tradition.

This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills.

Demystifying a growing and dynamic field, Handbook of Governmental Accounting reflects the increasing complexity of this area, enabling readers to grasp the intricate accounting that is involved as government expenditures multiply and governments engage in progressively complex transactions.

This book examines the antecedents and consequences of citizens' confidence in different political institutions and authorities.

Indonesia over the past two decades has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago.

It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers.

This book provides analytical, conceptual, and practical insights into how public policy processes and outcomes are conceptualized and framed.

Can a baker refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple?

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa.

In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

Record breaking hurricane seasons, tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, and intentional acts of mass-casualty violence, give lie to the delusion that disasters are the anomaly and not the norm.

Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan's northeast coastline on March 11, 2011.